If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.
Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
The great thing is anytime you see an artist that has a piece of what I've already done, you can see it from afar. 'He's doing that lil' hammer right there' - whether it's the energy, the swag or the look - it's a blessing.
I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.
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